Journal of Nutrition Research
DOI: 10.55289/jnutres/v12i1_23.31
Year: 2024, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-31
Guideline
Lekha Sreedharan 1 , Sripriya Venkiteswaran ✉ 2 , Maya Prasad 3 , K C Anand 4 , K Vasudeva Bhat 5 , Nandita Dhanaki 6 , Priti Arolkar 7 , Rajul Mahendra Gala 8 , Revathi Raj 9 , S Nandhini 10 , Roshan Kore 11 , Momi Barman 12 , A Snany Surendran 13 , Vibha Mehta 14 , Nikita Gaonkar 15 , Reshma Aleem 16 , Kanika Narang 17 , N Vijayashree 18 , Nirmala Srinivasan 19 , V Brundavani 20 , Divya Ananthasubramanian 21 , K Anushia John 22 , C Reena 23 , Anuradha Daptardar 24 , Karthik Narayanan Ramaswamy 25 , Vimal Kumar 26 , Shivshankar Timmanpyati 27
Received Date:21 December 2023, Accepted Date:15 May 2024, Published Date:18 June 2024
Nutritional imbalances which occur as a result of the disease and its treatment are common problems in paediatric cancer patients. Malnutrition, which encompasses both overnutrition and undernutrition, directly impacts a child's growth, quality of life, treatment outcomes, and survival. Unfortunately, nutritional management of paediatric cancer patients is not standardised and uniform across the country due to the lack of national guidelines. This necessitates the formulation of guidelines and recommendations that will provide a systematic approach and help address the multiple nutritional challenges in paediatric cancer patients. While formulating this consensus statement, a cohort of experts comprising paediatric oncology nutrition experts and oncologists were selected from paediatric oncology centres across India. The committee thus formed put together clinical questions in different areas on identification, evaluation and management of nutritional issues in children undergoing treatment for cancer. An extensive literature search in PubMed was performed; the available evidence was discussed over eight meetings, and recommendations were drafted as per the committee members' discussion and consensus. Practical recommendations were proposed and deliberated upon wherever evidence in the literature was unavailable. Finally, the draft consensus statements and recommendations were approved by all the authors for publication and practice. With this paper, the committee aimed to present a consensus-based guidance for addressing the nutritional needs of children with cancer.
Keywords
Pediatric Oncology Nutrition, Nutritional Management, Consensus Recommendations and Guidance
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Published By India Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (IAPEN)
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